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...echoed across the country as he researched his most recent book, the nonfictional Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the 21st Century (1999), for which he interviewed more than 200 people. In places like Alaska and Utah, he found those who never knew the South firsthand yet had a yearning for it. "What's true of African-American identity is true for Southern identity," says Kenan. "A lot of it is fragile and in danger, and a lot of it is so much a part of us that we don't even...
...beloved news media attacks all that is good and wholesome. I wasn't one bit surprised at your hostile questioning of Dr. Laura. After serving for 18 months in Vietnam and seeing how the news media trashed us service personnel, then 15 years as a big-city cop, witnessing firsthand the news media onslaught of anti-cop writings, then now as a minister seeing how the news media loves to attack biblical Christianity, is it any wonder that I have so much resentment towards the news media...
...nine, Carrington witnessed firsthand the civil strife in her native Nigeria during the military regime of General Sani Abacha...
...Especially at Harvard, it's easy to become completely isolated in academic experience," Onie says. "But for a lot of students in Project HEALTH, it's been a window to the realities of life during this sheltered period and has let them see firsthand how they can affect meaningful change without that degree...
...couldn't have begun more differently--it was arranged--but it too is a negotiation in disappointment. Which is in part why the men turn to O'Connell's, for "it feels good--no it feels great--to know at least one particular place, one particular period, from firsthand experience, eye-witness reports; to be the authority, to have time on your side, for once, for once." Smith later turns her attention to the next generation, to Archie's daughter Irie, an unwieldy girl who feels herself "a stranger in a stranger land" and to Samad's twin sons Magid...